South Africa's Dreams

Ethnologists and Apartheid in Namibia

Robert J. Gordon (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

202 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-149-4 (ISBN)

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In the early sixties, South Africa’s colonial policies in Namibia served as a testing ground for many key features of its repressive ‘Grand Apartheid’ infrastructure, including strategies for countering anti-apartheid resistance. Exposing the role that anthropologists played, this book analyses how the knowledge used to justify and implement apartheid was created. Understanding these practices and the ways in which South Africa’s experiences in Namibia influenced later policy at home is also critically evaluated, as is the matter of adjudicating the many South African anthropologists who supported the regime.

Robert J. Gordon is Emeritus Professor at the University of Vermont and a Research Fellow at the University of the Free State. His books include Going Abroad: Travelling like an Anthropologist (Routledge, 2010) and most recently The Enigma of Max Gluckman: The Ethnographic Life of ‘Luckyman’ in Africa (Nebraska, 2018) which was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title in 2019.

Acknowledgements

Notes on Text

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Beleaguered Knowledge: The Interwar Irrelevance of Anthropological Expertise

Chapter 2. Post-World War II Ethnological Dispositions in a Disputed Territory

Chapter 3. Performing for All the World to See: Bruwer and the Fashioning of Modern Namibia

Chapter 4. From WHAM to Countermobilization

Chapter 5. Bringing Bonn Back In

Conclusion: “Have We Met the Enemy and is (S)he Us?” (Pogo)

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.01.2024
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-149-6 / 1805391496
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-149-4 / 9781805391494
Zustand	Neuware